Summary
The remote host is missing an update to awstats
announced via advisory MDVSA-2009:266.
Solution
To upgrade automatically use MandrakeUpdate or urpmi. The verification of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=MDVSA-2009:266
Insight
A vulnerability has been found and corrected in awstats:
awstats.pl in AWStats 6.8 and earlier does not properly remove quote characters, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via the query_string parameter. NOTE:
this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2008-3714 (CVE-2008-5080).
This update fixes this vulnerability.
Affected: Corporate 4.0, Enterprise Server 5.0
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2008-3714, CVE-2008-5080 -
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
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